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Model-based Analysis of Tuberculosis Genotype Clusters in the United States Reveals High Degree of Heterogeneity in Transmission and State-level Differences Across California, Florida, New York, and Texas.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 12 Oct 2022
Shrestha Sourya, Winglee Kathryn, Hill Andrew N, Shaw Tambi, Smith Jonathan P, Kammerer J Steve, Silk Benjamin J, Marks Suzanne M, Dowdy David
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BACKGROUND: Reductions in tuberculosis (TB) transmission have been instrumental in lowering TB incidence in the United States. Sustaining and augmenting these reductions are key public health priorities. METHODS: We fit mechanistic transmission models to distributions of genotype clusters of TB cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 2012-2016 in the United States and separately in...
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